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Day 2 continues, once we were on the canyon floor it was an easy trip along the river, the road climbed in altitude before descending to the ferry. We have allocated 2 hours to get everyone across in the end it took about 45 minutes, the ferry crew ,2 people, worked hard and through lunch to get us across.
Most of the road to the ferry looked like this Looking up river 1 of a number of hay fields, there are lot of these to prep winter feed for the cattle. No mention a ready source of water. Another huge hay field, this one was across the river from where we were Where ever there is water thing green up fast Rest stop and photo op. The view down river, back the direction we came from Up river towards the ferry still a ways to go Our fearless leader Andy hamming it up, pretty close to a sheer drop all around him. Lot of room up top though.
As we reached the ferry and all got across our 1st bit of trouble surfaced, the temp was 33-34 Cel about 91-93 F. We had a fairly long climb at about 29% grade to cover a elevation gain of about 1600M or 2.5 Km of road. As the diesels were leading we in low range and 1 or 2nd gear. This resulted in one of the Disco 1's having a cooling issue and the temp gauge moving up past normal, even my truck moved up from it's normal 188 to a high of 210. To give some perspective, on the other side I dropped to 176ish for a short time and no point between 210 and 176 did the temperature gauge budge from dead center.
We got the fellow in the Disco 1 to go into low range and keep the rev's up this remedied the cooling situation for the rest of climb, but it would re-occur off and on over the day.
Later in the day we also discovered one 110's had a slow leak in the Power steering, this required the occasional stop to top up.
I have no pictures of the ascent as I was keeping a close eye on the Disco 1 with overheat issue, speaking with the driver over the radio, and keeping our leader appraised of the situation.
The final section for day 2 should be up shortly
The road to the ferry and another hay field, there are number of them in this area as all access is via forest service road. The reaction ferry just finished loading Heading out note the angle, it takes about 5 minutes to cross only using the force of the river 1/2 way the river was really moving And a long shot A couple of "terrified" deer just before the ascent, all most all of the fenced ranch land is posted no hunting no shooting. The deer seem to know it. No zoom just out the window of the Disco
The ferry captain just hangs out there all day? Seems like a pretty remote area and traffic could be mighty light at times. Or do you schedule this crossing?
Does he somehow turn the bow of the ferry back around for the return trip? Interesting.
Yeah, watched my temperature reading on my lcarsoft LRll going as high as 216...without moving the dash guage from center.
While wheeling in the hills of southern Ohio last summer, actual temperature was slightly over 100 degrees. We had four failures from the heat, an engine, couple alternators and a A/C compressor. Me, l ran the passengers side heat control on highest setting and pointed the vents away from me. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad...and l believe it helped keep temps in check all day.
Enjoying your trip immensely, thank you for posting.
Side note...my wife was originally going to go with me to Ohio...but l'm glad she changed her mind (she saw the forecasted temps)...or it would have been my heat sellector on high and pointing my direction all day...lol. And her punching me in the face for talking her into going...lol.
@The Deputy Brian, it is a government job there is a cabin for the operator. There no scheduling, you just show up, it is open from 7 to 7 with an hour break between 12 and 1, it closes in winter or if the river is really high and fast.
It actually can not turn around as it is attached to an overhead cable, they just change the angle of the pontoons to move either way. It is actually a very simple system and pretty cool to watch.
Right there with you on the heater, it may not help more than a degree or two but every little bit helps
Day 2 to the peak, beyond the a for mentioned problems the rest of the day was pretty clean. We ran up to Poison mountain then down to Dave's Creek to camp, the trip down will be a final post for this day.
Typical low to medium use FSR, Gvt Forestry and logging companies keep them up. Mostly it is about access in the event of a fire The typical low use roads we travel Fire went through year last year, the road itself had a one long stretch of root speed bumps, about 30 -45 minutes. Not good for weak bladders Back to forest Starting the climb up Clear of the tree line The peak in the distance A little closer View from the top Row of Rovers, mine with the hood up to let some air under there, there was a nice breeze.
@Nosugar0carbs@ArmyRover it was a great trip, and it is weird for me to be with a group I have mostly traveled solo for years. But the advantage is I get to try really cool trails I would not otherwise go on.
